The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 43

He had hardly spoken these words when the lid of the box fell back on the floor with a terrible noise, and to their horror out sprang the Yellow Dwarf, mounted upon a great Spanish cat.

Who acts: King, lid · What happens: speak, fall back, spring, mount · To what, where: words, floor, Yellow Dwarf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, lid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 spoken	advmod
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoken	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 fell	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lid	det
9	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 box	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 box	det
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lid	nmod
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 fell	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 floor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 floor	det
17	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 noise	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 noise	det
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 noise	amod
21	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sprang	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sprang	cc
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 horror	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 horror	nmod:poss
26	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sprang	obl
27	out	out	ADV	_	28 sprang	advmod
28	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Dwarf	det
30	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Dwarf	amod
31	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sprang	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mounted	punct
33	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 Dwarf	acl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 cat	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 cat	det
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cat	amod
37	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cat	amod
38	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mounted	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect	King	this words		hardly property	tree rules
2	fall back	past	the lid of the box		the floor	with a terrible noise	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
3	spring	past		the Yellow Dwarf		to lions's horror; out property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dwarf=Theme
4	mount	participle		the Yellow Dwarf not said here		upon a great Spanish cat	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon cat=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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